San Francisco Chronicle business and technology reporter Henry Norr has been suspended for two weeks without pay after having been arrested in an anti-war protest in downtown San Francisco, the Mercury News reports.
The suspension is mired in controversy, because Norr’s employers claim he was disciplined not for the protest arrest, but for time card misrepresentations … [He asked for sick leave. Read his reasons for doing so <a href="http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=letters" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=letters', 'here']);" >here</a> (must scroll down).] …Nothing in Norr’s duties for the Chronicle involved reporting on the war in Iraq, as far as we can tell, and even if that were the case, punishing him at work for expressing a political view on what he thought was his own time is a dangerous way to proceed in a democracy. We think the Chronicle should reconsider.
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